Bug 1361734 - Use unique .config directory for Fedora Chromium
Summary: Use unique .config directory for Fedora Chromium
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: chromium
Version: 24
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Tom "spot" Callaway
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-07-29 23:14 UTC by Adam Goode
Modified: 2016-08-15 17:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-08-15 17:13:29 UTC
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Description Adam Goode 2016-07-29 23:14:08 UTC 
Description of problem:
For the officially built version of chromium in Fedora, consider using a unique directory under .config. Right now if I build chromium from upstream source, it uses the same profile as the distro installed chromium. This causes issues since the version built at head is often quite experimental.

As a workaround, I could alternatively configure my development chromium to point elsewhere, but it seems reasonable to keep .config/chromium as a place for non-distro versions of chromium to use.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
chromium-52.0.2743.82-2.fc24.x86_64
Comment 1 Nils Philippsen 2016-08-15 11:45:20 UTC 
Not good, as users updating would lose their settings etc.
Comment 2 Tom "spot" Callaway 2016-08-15 17:13:29 UTC 
(In reply to Nils Philippsen from comment #1)
> Not good, as users updating would lose their settings etc.

Yeah, I agree.

I think you want to use --user-data-dir= here instead.
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